Community News

Families to play giant Chutes & Ladders game
Giant fun is headed to Brunswick County. From 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, parents and kids will be coming together at Kids Day in the Park for a life-sized Chutes & Ladders game to spread the word that giving our kids a good start is not a game.
MomsRising, The First 2,000 Days Campaign, and Smart Start of Brunswick County are hosting the game to remind our community and leaders that investing in kids means investing in N.C.’s future.

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The Boiling Spring Lakes Garden Club will be hosting a garden tour, “From Butterflies to Bogs,” from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. April 6.
All proceeds will benefit the planned BSL children’s playground. Tickets are available at the BSL Community Center and Southport Chamber of Commerce, or call 845-0608.
The garden tour will include garden clubs’ gardens, as well as private gardens. Included will be the garden club’s award-winning butterfly garden and its newest addition, the bog garden.

Class on living with osteoporosis
Anyone who knows someone who has broken a bone due to osteoporosis understands the pain and potential disability caused by this disease. Characterized by fragile bones, osteoporosis is a major public health problem. Nearly half of all women, and a quarter of all men older than 50, will break a bone because of osteoporosis.

If you were visiting the Museum of Coastal Carolina on Friday, March 1, you witnessed a special treat when one of the horseshoe crabs in the museum’s touch tank started to molt.
Like many animals with hard shells, a horseshoe crab must shed its shell (or molt) in order to grow larger. A horseshoe crab goes through 16-17 molts during its lifetime. With each molt, it increases in size by about 25-30 percent.

The GFWC of Holden Beach will host its fifth annual Blooming for a Cause Charity Gala from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, April 13, at the Sea Trail Convention Center.
A silent auction, fashion show and luncheon will benefit Hope Harbor Home, a shelter for victims of domestic violence and abuse, and Providence Home, the only emergency youth shelter in Brunswick County.

New books at Hickmans Crossroads Library
The following new books are now available at Hickmans Crossroads Library:
“Hit Me” by Lawrence Block. With a new wife and a baby on the way, Keller, a.k.a. Nicholas Edwards, is done killing people for money until a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game.

Those with a sharp eye for public gardens will have a chance to win one of three photographic prizes at Franklin Square Gallery on April 5 during the monthly Gallery Walk in downtown Southport.
Visitors will be asked to make a donation and then guess where the photo was taken in Southport.
One of the prizes is a book of photos from Orton Plantation; another is a collage of eight photos of azaleas taken at a public location in Southport; and the third is a collage of photos taken at Orton Plantation.